I will openly point out that George Lucas lacks originality. But the Star Wars films had help from others to become great. For Star Trek Abrams was surrounded by yes men.

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So, just because they found a clever and appropriate Science Fiction tool to not only respect the original timeline AND create a reboot simultaneously, it's just because Abrams was surrounded by a bunch of yes men.

Did you even like the original Star Trek series then? That too had a few alternate timelines of its own and "evil" universes.

What I would like to see from 2012:
Seven Psychopaths
Frankenweenie
Sinister
The Collection
Moonrise Kingdom

Movies I will probably watch 2013:
The Last Stand
A Good Day to Die Hard
The Last Exorcism Part II
Oz The Great and Powerful
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
The Croods
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
Evil Dead
Monsters University
World War Z
Kick-Ass 2
Despicable Me 2
The Lone Ranger
300: Rise of an Empire
RED 2
Insidious Chapter 2
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

I will openly point out that George Lucas lacks originality. But the Star Wars films had help from others to become great. For Star Trek Abrams was surrounded by yes men.

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So, just because they found a clever and appropriate Science Fiction tool to not only respect the original timeline AND create a reboot simultaneously, it's just because Abrams was surrounded by a bunch of yes men.

Did you even like the original Star Trek series then? That too had a few alternate timelines of its own and "evil" universes.

I will openly point out that George Lucas lacks originality. But the Star Wars films had help from others to become great. For Star Trek Abrams was surrounded by yes men.

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So, just because they found a clever and appropriate Science Fiction tool to not only respect the original timeline AND create a reboot simultaneously, it's just because Abrams was surrounded by a bunch of yes men.

Did you even like the original Star Trek series then? That too had a few alternate timelines of its own and "evil" universes.

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all alternate time lines got fixed by either those involved or by the 29th century federation and alternate universes are different than alternate timelines and not caused by the same thing.

I will openly point out that George Lucas lacks originality. But the Star Wars films had help from others to become great. For Star Trek Abrams was surrounded by yes men.

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So, just because they found a clever and appropriate Science Fiction tool to not only respect the original timeline AND create a reboot simultaneously, it's just because Abrams was surrounded by a bunch of yes men.

Did you even like the original Star Trek series then? That too had a few alternate timelines of its own and "evil" universes.

I recently watched Texas Chainsaw 3D...now I loved the original (I never saw the sequels), and I'm one of the very few who loved the remake and the prequel, but this was just bad, and I mean pretty much everything about it...if I had to pick one thing I thought didn't suck about it was the plot in the third act/ending. That was an interesting take in the series, but even that could have been executed better.

Meh. Star Trek was great and the SW prequel's weren't as horrible as people would like to believe; most of the problems people had with the prequels existed in the original trilogy (such as bad acting and dialog). The only complaint I can understand is the prequels using an overabundance of CGI.

Otherwise, it seems that most people either wanted carbon clones of the OT or wanted the entire trilogy to be the last 45 minutes of Revenge of the Sith.

I recently watched Texas Chainsaw 3D...now I loved the original (I never saw the sequels), and I'm one of the very few who loved the remake and the prequel, but this was just bad, and I mean pretty much everything about it...if I had to pick one thing I thought didn't suck about it was the plot in the third act/ending. That was an interesting take in the series, but even that could have been executed better.

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I really liked it, and though it was 3 hours, I felt like it could have been just one more hour. I don't ever say that about long movies, which shocked my friend who I saw it with when I said that. Also, there is a funny scene after the credits, so if you guys go see it, go ahead and stay. It's like 25 seconds, but it's a really cool way to end with the title of the film.

Anyway, I just noticed I actually have quite a few movies I'm looking forward to. Let's see, after Django it would have to be The Evil Dead Remake, Star Trek Into Darkness, Pacific RIm, and all of the comic book adaptations, Oblivion, and there's a lot more, but those are the ones I defiantly want to make it to a theater for.

Funny thing though, I meant this to be a year where I read more books, and watched less movies and yet there's a lot of stuff that has my interests in the cinema right now.

I haven't been able to fill out a Top 10 in quite some time. This year is no exception.

Upcoming flicks I will avoid are Hobbit 2, Evil Dead and 300...2.

Kick Ass 2 and Iron Man 3 are the top stuff coming out.Besides those,
I'll be seeing Monsters U, Red 2 and Die Hard 5.
That is a good series. DH3 is the only one that sucked ass.

Can we discuss porn titles? Someone rented Hairy Twatter at work today. I laughed.

Finally, someone with good convo material. That's why I like this goonie bastid.

Damn,I used to know a lot of good ones. I saw a few titles not too long ago that made me laugh. Edward Penishands was always amusing. Schindler's Fist. lol
Forrest Hump, Throbbin Hood, Hannah does her sisters, Charlie's Anals, Shaving Ryan's Privates,
Sex Trek-Deep Throat Nine,Gangbangs of NY, and the classic...In Diana Jones and the Temple of Poon.

Well, we loved getting free porn rentals....but did not envy him when he mentioned he had to clean the skizz out of the peep booths.

More Pron titles.......
Muffy the Vampire Layer
Super Hornio Bros (actually remember seeing a WTF pic of Ron Jeremy dressed up like Mario. Now I know why)
The DaVinci load
Hung Wankenstein(pronounced 'Wonk-en-steen') Bond would get that
Apollo 13 inches
Whore of the Rings
Free My Willy
Battlestar Orgasmica
Big Trouble in Little Vagina
Inrearendence Day
The Porn Identity
Sorest Rump (that's even better than the other one lol)
Will He Bonk Ya in the Chocolate Factory

Yeah. I was hoping for a Mario cameo though. I read that they couldn't show him because of how much it would've cost to obtain the property, but they were able to mention his name and make other references from Mario games. It just seems strange.

Yeah when he was like 'oh it must me Mario...' with the knock at the door was the only reference they gave. I'm okay with tha tthough. I'm pretty sure you can see either him or Peach on the wall when he goes to the bathroom. There's enough throwbacks for me to be happy.

Lol, those are hilarious, Joe. I'll keep an eye out for more good ones next time. Even the non-parodies have some pretty amusing titles. Also, I just work at a video rental place that has an adult section. Felt the need to clarify that.

Yeah. I was hoping for a Mario cameo though. I read that they couldn't show him because of how much it would've cost to obtain the property, but they were able to mention his name and make other references from Mario games. It just seems strange.

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Actually Rich Moore has already negated this speculation on facebook and said the reason why they didn't have Mario at all is because they couldn't come up with a good visual gag, and decided not to use him. He's also gone on saying that they will have Mario show up in the follow up film.

Also, Wreck It Ralph was probably my favorite movie for 2012. I saw a lot more films in the theater than I normally do. Looper was the biggest disappointment of the year, and Wreck It-Ralph was the biggest surprise. Prometheus is underrated due to people not realizing that some of the characters were in fact hinted at not being scientists at all, while the real scientists (as in not the mercenaries or god seeking hippies) were there, but only at the end of the movie with the plot twist. The Three Stooges was a guilty pleasure for me.

Avengers was ok, not great. The Amazing Spider-Man was the best adaptation out of all of the comic book movies this year and stuck much truer to the Peter Parker character than Sam Raimi's Spidey did. Plus it helped they actually was a wise cracker.

Let's see, for 2012 I was able to see in the theater:

The Hunger Games
The Three Stooges
Prometheus
The Avengers in 3D and IMAX 3D
The Amazing Spider-Man in IMAX 3D
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
The Dark Knight Rises
Ted
Looper
Wreck It-Ralph in 3D and 2D.
Lincoln
Skyfall in IMAX

I actually got to see Vampire Hunter and TASM back-to-back, which was a new experience for me. Wow, I hadn't realized I had seen this many films this year until looking at all of my stubs. lol

As for a few special cases, I bought The Inkeepers on DVD, which apparently was a 2012 release, though I'm not entirely sure on that. It was an ok film to say the least, and of course I just saw Django Unchained but in the new year. So yeah, I had a great time with movies this year, so now I'm hoping to have a similar experience with books for 2013.

Bought my second Blu-ray, which was a 4 disc combo and it seems logical to pay $7.50 per disc than to pay $20 for one DVD disc. I bought Frankenwennie. I loved and it brought back memories of the old VHS live action version. The only thing that irked me was the addition of live action. STOP putting live action footage in animated films! It makes the whole idea of an animated film half-assed and lazy. Yeesh.

I don't even know what to think about all this porn talk, and a porn party? What the fuck? I can't decide what's worse: a bunch of people watching porn together or a couple in the middle of a party having sex.

I don't even know what to think about all this porn talk, and a porn party? What the fuck? I can't decide what's worse: a bunch of people watching porn together or a couple in the middle of a party having sex.

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Buddy at porn party turns to you and says "Hey, maaan, mind if I jerk you off?"